Mistral merges Le Chat into Vibe, a unified agent for work and code

Background

Mistral's assistant Le Chat was built around conversation: a user typed a question and got an answer back in a chat window. That format works for quick questions, but it fits poorly with work that spans several steps and several applications, or with coding tasks that need somewhere to run. On 28 May 2026 Mistral announced a change of shape rather than a change of name, framing it with the line that Le Chat is now Vibe ^[1].

What changed

The announcement described a single agent and a single licence covering both work and code, so that the same product carries a user from ordinary office tasks through to software development ^[1]. Existing conversations and plans were carried over into the new arrangement rather than being started again ^[1]. Mistral also said the old Chat mode would be sunset soon, making Vibe the place where the assistant now lives ^[1].

The company was explicit that nothing in users' history would be lost: all Le Chat history will continue to be preserved in Work Mode ^[1].

Work Mode

Work Mode is the part of Vibe aimed at multi-step tasks. It runs those tasks across connectors, and Mistral named Google Workspace, Outlook, SharePoint, Slack and GitHub among them ^[1]. In practice this is the difference between an assistant that answers a question and one that can act where the material already sits — mail, documents, shared files, team chat and code repositories — without the user moving content between them by hand. Because Le Chat history is preserved here, the existing record of past conversations becomes part of the working environment rather than a separate archive ^[1].

Code Mode

Code Mode handles the software side. It launches remote coding agents inside isolated sandboxes ^[1]. The isolation is the point: an agent that writes and runs code needs an environment where it can execute things without touching the user's own machine or production systems. Putting the agent in a sandbox also means the coding work happens on remote infrastructure, so the user's local setup is not the boundary of what the agent can do.

Plans

Vibe was announced with four tiers: Free, Pro at $14.99 per month, Team at $24.99 per user per month, and Enterprise ^[1]. Mistral described the Free plan as suited to quick answers and simple everyday tasks ^[1], which places the entry point at the level of the old chat habit. Enterprise, at the other end, was described as offering custom deployments, model training and dedicated solutioning ^[1] — that is, arrangements shaped around a particular organisation rather than a standard subscription. Between them, Pro and Team cover individual professional use and group use respectively.

Why it matters

The move folds three things that are usually sold and used separately — a chat assistant, connectors into workplace software, and coding agents — under one licence and one agent ^[1]. For an organisation, that reduces the number of products it has to evaluate and administer; for a user, it means the same assistant persists across tasks instead of being restarted in a different tool. The sunsetting of the old Chat mode also marks a clear break: Mistral is not maintaining a chat-only product alongside the agent, but pointing existing users and their history to the new mode ^[1]. What the announcement does not do is describe results, benchmarks or independent evaluation of how well the connectors and sandboxes perform; it sets out the shape of the product and its pricing, and leaves the working out to use.